Get tickets to Fight Night Singapore and see Holly Holm live! Holm was on her way to a clear points win when she was submitted in the final round by Tate in March 2016. A step on the gas might have allowed her to get the nod against Shevchenko four months later. And in February, many ...

Turkey on Saturday blocked all access to Wikipedia and banned television dating shows, adding to fears of a crackdown after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's victory in a referendum on enhancing his powers. The government also dismissed almost 4,000 public officials in the latest wave ...

For most of her life, Dr Dawn-joy Leong, 51, has been viewed as an oddball. She could fold origami at three years old and composed a musical play at the age of nine. But while obviously intelligent, she was labelled difficult and spoilt when she had what were perceived as tantrums and...

China's recent embracing of every foreigner of Chinese descent as one of its own is particularly problematic for Singapore, says Professor Wang Gungwu. In 2000, Beijing apparently abandoned its long-entrenched policy of distancing itself from the ethnic Chinese born - or those long se...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faced pushback on Saturday at a regional summit over his efforts to weaken Southeast Asian resistance to Chinese expansionism in the contested South China Sea, diplomats said. Duterte was due to release a chairman's statement at the end of the one-...

Singapore Airlines flies nonstop from San Francisco, and the rest of these itineraries generally have one reasonable connection either in Frankfurt (FRA) if you’re departing from New York, or Tokyo (NRT) or Seoul (ICN) if your origin is in the West. There’s no Saturday night or minimu...

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Former FAS vice-president Bill Ng, right, won Saturday's election by 30 votes to 13. Lim Kia Tong has called for the Singapore football fraternity to unite after he was voted in as the new president of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) on Saturday. In the first-ever democrat...

In the middle of a Marina Bay Sands ballroom stood an unusual contraption - two 1.6m-high parallel bars. On it, a 92-year-old granny - clad in a tight green leotard - could be accused of failing to act her age. Her callused, weathered hands gripping the bars, Ms Johanna Quaas vaulted ...

BANGKOK: Thonglor in central Bangkok is where the well-heeled shop, dine and wine. There is a good selection of boutiques, bars, pubs and restaurants here, but it also has a high turnover of broken dreams or business plans gone awry. However, at the very beginning of the 55th soi (str...

BEIJING (AFP) - Laden with whisky and baby milk, the first freight train linking Britain directly to China arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu on Saturday (April 29) after a 12,000-km trip, becoming the world's second-longest rail route. The journey is the latest effort in Chi...

United Kingdom • 28 April 2017 Unexplained Wealth Orders: How to catch the corrupt and corrupt money in the UK On 27 April the UK parliament passed an important provision of the Criminal Finance Bill that introduces a powerful new weapon into the anti-corruption arsenal: Unexplained W...

Singapore has a total of 42 business class seats on this version of their 777-300ER. Business class seats are in a 1-2-1 configuration. There are eight business class seats in the forward cabin (right behind first class), and then the main business class cabin has a total of 34 busine...

Mani Malaichamy proudly surveys his Kaki Bukit office, filled with barrels of paint in different colours, before opening the door to show me his new 2.4 litre, white Toyota Harrier. "I really believe God gave me everything," he says, eyes darting to a poster of Ganesha, the Hindu elep...

Established Insurance Firm is looking an Corporate Communications Manager/AVP in the organization. Attractive remuneration up to $7000 with good career prospects in a dynamic working environment Responsible to build the company brand to internal and external stakeholders Coordinate th...

SINGAPORE - A 25-year-old Singaporean woman who turned to crowdfunding to help get her severely ill father home from Tokyo has successfully raised more than $239,000 in a matter of days. Ms Eileen Cheong wrote in her campaign on fundraising platform Give.Asia that her family had flown...

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WHAT A WEEKEND! I travelled to Singapore with Emirates to film the fans of the remaining teams in the Semi Finals & their supporters! Don't forget to share you #CupStory online to be feature in a film directed by Raleigh Ritchie! Huge thanks to The Emirates FA Cup and Emirates for mak...